nvidia number scheme

hi, im confused on nvidia's number scheme with its video cards, and was wondering if i could get some help., im upgrading to a new card from a fx 5200. im considering the following 6600 8500 7300 the price ranges are differnt, for each card, i just want to know what is the best one-thanksnvidia number scheme
oh, im trying to play mostly rts games. i realy want to give supreme commander a try,would these video cards with a gig of ram and a amd 2.4 be able to run it?nvidia number scheme
What are your system specs, do you have a pci-express card slot, and what are the watts plus the +12v amps on your power supply?
i have pci slots, and a amd 2.4 1 gig of ram
Pci or Pci express? If you have expess, the 8800 series are the best cards out and anything from the 7600gt and above are good cards.
[QUOTE=''roulettethedog'']Pci or Pci express? If you have expess, the 8800 series are the best cards out and anything from the 7600gt and above are good cards.[/QUOTE] Looks like its AGP, FX5200, I would then try to get a AGP X1650, or see if saphire's going to make AGP versions of thier 2600XT/GT :)
[QUOTE=''NcloudN'']I'm confused on nvidia's number scheme with its video cards, and was wondering if I could get some help., I'm upgrading to a new card from a fx 5200. im considering the following 7300 Low Quality, for Office use when running Powerpoint slide shows 6600 Lower end of Medium Quality, was a good value for its price in the ''GT'' model for a few months when it was newYou skipped past a proper game card in between here (7600 pair) 8500 Also is the Lower end of Medium Quality, but overlapped with the 7600 GS that actually came next in order
the price ranges are differnt, for each card, i just want to know what is the best one-thanks[/QUOTE](In Edit) I forgot to point out that the word ''best'' is an inappropriate choice. Fastest is OK, and sharpest is usable, but trying to get any consensus on either ''Best'' or ''Better'' is worthless. Those words are simply far too subjective to deal with.These days, the starting game cards are 7600 GS' and Radeon X1650 Pros. Notice the last three numbers sre above ''600'', which is what you want. The 7600 GT was the best value all last winter and fall, and is still an excellent choice. Gamespot ran a very good video card shopping article a year or so ago. I have the link among my bookmarks. http://www.gamespot.com/features/6153327/index.htmlThere you go!
[QUOTE=''Kiwi_1''][QUOTE=''NcloudN'']I'm confused on nvidia's number scheme with its video cards, and was wondering if I could get some help., I'm upgrading to a new card from a fx 5200. im considering the following 7300 Low Quality, for Office use when running Powerpoint slide shows 6600 Lower end of Medium Quality, was a good value for its price in the ''GT'' model for a few months when it was new 8500 Also is the Lower end of Medium Quality, but overlapped with the 7600 GS that came next the price ranges are differnt, for each card, i just want to know what is the best one-thanks[/QUOTE]These days, the starting game cards are 7600 GS' and Radeon X1650 Pros. Notice the last three numbers sre above ''600'', which is what you want. The 7600 GT was the best value all last winter and fall, and is still an excellent choice. Gamespot ran a very good video card shopping article a year or so ago. I have the link among my bookmarks. http://www.gamespot.com/features/6153327/index.htmlThere you go![/QUOTE]Kiwi speaks the truth. Don't get anything flashier than a 7600 or x1650, because spending any more than that won't be worth it on a AGP board and you will likely be bottle necked on a faster card like an 8800.
Different games and different variations in similar systems have huge effects when it comes to identifying any points on which CPU power and efficiency are enough below the capability of the GPU that the video card's own performance will suffer. There certainly are some situations where we can agree it is likely, such as the lower end of the AMD s462 processor series, like the Thunderbirds, and the early Palominos.Exactly where we have to cut those off is debateable. Certainly the main system boards that lack 8X AGP busses will be more problem than the difference between an XP 1900 and an XP 2000, when trying to locate the precise spot at which it becomes a wasted effort (and expense) to take a next upward speed bump in GPUs/ VPUs. The most powerful AGP card that I have is mounted in a system I named ''Dollar'' because of how little it cost me to built it at the end of the AMD XP period, with a mobile XP 2600 CPU, Abit NF7 MB, two GBs of DDR 400, and a Sapphire X800 XT-platinum video card. The most intensive game now popular that really puts heavy demands on the CPU is Oblivion. My Dollar PC never has one lick of trouble in that game (running Win2000, not XP -- tested in XP, the game did exhibit a few anomalies).It would've been neat to have tried that video card in the slower system (AGP 4X, DDR 266 RAM, XP 2200 CPU) that I'd put together here for a utility box, but something happened over the weekend, possibly related to one or another of several big thunderstorms we had here, and it seems to have been kiled off!